Even when they purport to help, you quickly realize this isn’t the case…just look at the bill!

Anyone that charges $300 an hour cannot be trusted.

I don’t trust Bullock.

We already saw that he can’t be trusted to get infrastructure passed. When he does try to pass it to he ensures his banker cronies will have mountains of debt to make interest off of.

It’s just a real mess and I can’t be part of it. I can’t be part of the flimsy excuses and justifications that Democrats continue to throw out there as reasons for doing things.

The Democrats’ way of doing things makes no sense.

I guess you have to figure that’s the case when you’re desperate, clinging to your urban areas, fighting amongst your members for limited seats, and generally grasping for a vision that never seems to come.

There just aren’t leaders in the Montana Democratic Party anymore, nor do the current people at the top want there to be any.

So the party will continue to flounder and flail about, with regular members hoping against hope that something will change, their leaders constantly looking over their shoulder, hoping it doesn’t.

Conclusion

God, I hope someone or some PAC gives me a ton of money to write anti-Bullock posts all year.

I would love that.

Clearly I love it, for I do it all the time now for free!

I guess in that regard, why pay me? Why pay me to write about Bullock and his terrible performance when I do that for free now?

So that’s an issue I need to work on.

I see no reason not to take money to write against Bullock as I sure as shit won’t be getting any money to write for him.

That’s the job of MT Cowgirl, MT Streetfighter, and maybe a few other pandering sites that haven’t started up just yet.

No, Bullock needs K-Streeters from D.C. writing his copy, not poor bastards living in Montana.

I can’t wait to see the results, once the shit’s flung and we start seeing campaign ads and social media posts.

That’s the stuff you do when your operation is new, uncoordinated, and a damn mess. He hired Aaron Flint about 10 days later.

​I also have to give props to Gianforte for keeping that Tweet – Democrats would have deleted it in shame right away while hoping to hell no one took a childish screenshot of it like they pride themselves on doing all the time.

When Bullock gets his dark money PACs going in March or so, expect to see a lot of these fuck-ups. Pitt and Hyers are too wet behind the ears in the state for there to be anything different.

Maybe Stone-Manning will save him, and her step-son Secret Squirrel.

Perhaps it’ll be Dave Parker over at Main Streets Montana, the program that has gone nowhere and which will likely become an albatross around Bullock’s neck, not the savior he’s counting on it to be.

Let's not forget that, as Attorney General in 2013, he put Barry Beach back in prison. He didn't have to appeal Judge Phillpps decision to the Supreme Court, but he did. And got it overturned, sending Beach back to prison for another year and a half. Now, one analyst says that that back-and-forth may have actually worked in Beach's favor, and led to his eventual release for good, but wouldn't allowing a new trial have really been better in the long run? Thanks for nothing, Bullock.

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Greg Strandberg

1/4/2016 04:52:31 pm

Hm, that's an interesting line of thought. Maybe that'll be an attack ad for the Gianforte campaign...though I'm not sure many would care.

I'm not sure the GOP can make Beach a liability for Bullock. It was always more a liability for the fringe of his own party.

That's the problem with the Montana Democratic Party - too many times there's no challenge, no alternative, no other point of view. There's not even any playing of devil's advocate.

For a party that prides itself on free speech and debate, boy, there sure seems to be a lack of it.

I'e been thinking a lot of how the Gianforte campaign can frame their quest for the governor's office. Attacking Bullock all the time just won't work, in my opinion, though we'll see that same tactic from the Democrats against Gianforte, already are in fact.

Gianforte's main issue right now is people don't think he can govern, or at least has no experience. I guess he needs to convince them he can.

If the Democrats don't come up with some kind of viable message why Bullock is the right choice for all Montanans, I'd worry the Gianforte campaign will have a lot of success framing a message of why he's not.

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Melanie Ruby

1/4/2016 06:56:40 pm

oops, that should have been 2012, not 2013.

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Montana Blogby Greg Strandberg

This Montana history blog is working its way up through time.It began in March 2013 with the early geology of Montana and continues on toward recent Montana history. Currently we're edging up into the 1990s.